Or new methods can challenge or validate old sources tree-ring analysis has revealed drought conditions in Virginia’s early Jamestown settlement - no wonder the settlers failed to thrive (and apparently resorted to cannibalism).
Fresh evidence can come to light, as Richard III’s crookbacked skeleton recently did in an English parking lot. And historians often retell old tales, if they can put something new into them. Would we agree with Shakespeare that nothing compares to the tedium of “a twice-told tale / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”? Hawthorne obviously didn’t. The story of the American Revolution has been rehearsed again and again. Beeman are not writing fiction, but like Hawthorne, they winningly deliver twice-told tales about the founding events of the United States. They haunt Boston in one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Twice-Told Tales” (1837). The Province House was torn down in 1922. Unable to accept that the British lost the American War for Independence, they are forever doomed to commemorate a moment when it might have gone the other way. The participants are the ghosts of colonial Massachusetts governors. Each year, on the anniversary of George Washington’s successful siege of British-occupied Boston, a procession glides through the Province House, the old governor’s mansion.
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